OT: Ubuntu and VMWare

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 10:21 -0400, amigian wrote:
> Unfortunetly i "need" to use some windoze apps. I now i have the option of 
> dual booting, but i would like to stay within Ubuntu.
> 
> My problem with VMWare is not VMWare itself. I have it installed and seems 
> to be working properly. My problem is trying to install Win98SE. This 
> version of Win98 has a boot floppy. I can start the Win98 install from the 
> CD, but then gets to a point to reboot and asks that the boot floppy be in 
> the drive. The catch - my machine does not have a floppy drive! Therefore 
> the Win98 install will not reboot.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way around this? If so, i would really appreciate 
> knowing how. I would love to start using Ubuntu a lot more than i do. 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Later.
> Marc

What you can do is make an ISO image of this floppy (on a machine that
does have a floppy drive, or just plug a floppy drive temporarily on
your machine), then you can tell VMware to use this ISO instead of using
a real drive (that you don't have).

To make the ISO, I think it's just:  "dd if=/dev/fd0
of=/where_you_want_it/fd_image.iso"

HTH

--
Vince